Section XVIII
Section XVIII: Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof
Section XVIII covers 3 chapters (90, 91, 92) with 53 headings and 208 six-digit subheadings.
Chapters 3
90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
- 9001Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading 8544; sheets and plates of polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optically worked
- 9002Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts of or fittings for instruments or apparatus, other than such elements of glass not optically worked
- 9003Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts thereof
- 9004Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other
- 9005Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy
- 9006Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading 8539
- 9007Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus
- 9008Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers
- 9010Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens
- 9011Compound optical microscopes, including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection
- 9012Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus
- 9013Lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
- 9014Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances
- 9015Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders
- 9016Balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better, with or without weights
- 9017Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
- 9018Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electromedical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
- 9019Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus
- 9020Other breathing appliances and gas masks, excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters
- 9021Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability
- 9022Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta, gamma or other ionising radiation, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-ray tubes and other X-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like
- 9023Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (for example, in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses
- 9024Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics)
- 9025Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments
- 9026Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level gauges, manometers, heat meters), excluding instruments and apparatus of heading 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032
- 9027Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes
- 9028Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor
- 9029Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, milometers, pedometers and the like; speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading 9014 or 9015; stroboscopes
- 9030Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 9028; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiation
- 9031Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; profile projectors
- 9032Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus
- 9033Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90
91 Clocks and watches and parts thereof
- 9101Wristwatches, pocket-watches and other watches, including stopwatches, with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
- 9102Wristwatches, pocket-watches and other watches, including stopwatches, other than those of heading 9101
- 9103Clocks with watch movements, excluding clocks of heading 9104
- 9104Instrument panel clocks and clocks of a similar type for vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft or vessels
- 9105Other clocks
- 9106Time of day recording apparatus and apparatus for measuring, recording or otherwise indicating intervals of time, with clock or watch movement or with synchronous motor (for example, time-registers, time-recorders)
- 9107Time switches, with clock or watch movement or with synchronous motor
- 9108Watch movements, complete and assembled
- 9109Clock movements, complete and assembled
- 9110Complete watch or clock movements, unassembled or partly assembled (movement sets); incomplete watch or clock movements, assembled; rough watch or clock movements
- 9111Watch cases and parts thereof
- 9112Clock cases and cases of a similar type for other goods of this chapter, and parts thereof
- 9113Watch straps, watch bands and watch bracelets, and parts thereof
- 9114Other clock or watch parts
92 Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles
- 9201Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments
- 9202Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps)
- 9205Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs
- 9206Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas)
- 9207Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions)
- 9208Musical boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments not falling within any other heading of this chapter; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles, call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instruments
- 9209Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds